Data Solutions Engineer, GovWell
$100-130k
+ Equity / stock options
3-5 days a week in office
Modern software for local government
Be an early applicant
Modern software for local government
1-20 employees
Be an early applicant
$100-130k
+ Equity / stock options
3-5 days a week in office
1-20 employees
Company mission
To build modern software products to help government serve communities better.
Role
Who you are
- 2–3+ years of hands-on experience in data solutions, data migrations, ETL/onboarding, technical implementations, or a closely related role involving messy, real-world data
- Strong SQL proficiency used in practice for data validation, reconciliation, and troubleshooting
- Experience working directly with customer-provided data, including interpreting poorly documented schemas, resolving inconsistencies, and making tradeoffs to deliver usable outcomes
- Strong data quality and validation instincts: able to identify risky data issues early, run effective QA, and prevent incorrect data from reaching production
- Comfortable interfacing directly with non-technical stakeholders, clearly explaining technical constraints, requirements, and tradeoffs in calm, plain language
- Highly reliable and execution-oriented: you take full ownership of migrations end-to-end, communicate proactively, and deliver on deadlines
- Process-driven and disciplined: you follow playbooks, avoid one-off solutions, and contribute to making onboarding more repeatable as GovWell scales
- Motivated by the real-world impact that clean, trusted data has on helping governments serve residents better
What the job involves
- GovWell is hiring a Data Solutions Engineer to help governments transition from legacy systems to modern software
- You’ll own customer data migrations and GIS onboarding end-to-end, working directly with government teams to map schemas, validate data, and ensure accurate, complete data is loaded into GovWell’s platform
- This role reports directly to Ben Cohen, Co-Founder and CTO, and works closely with Product, Engineering, and Deployment to make onboarding faster, more reliable, and increasingly repeatable as GovWell scales
- Execute customer data migrations and GIS onboarding end-to-end, working directly with government staff to understand source systems, configure mappings and ingestion settings, run validations and dry-runs, and ensure accurate, complete data is loaded into GovWell
- Own onboarding data quality and correctness by identifying gaps, inconsistencies, and edge cases in legacy data; making documented judgment calls within defined constraints, and preventing bad or unsafe data from entering production
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact during onboarding, leading customer calls, clearly explaining data requirements and tradeoffs, and guiding agencies through the transition from legacy systems to GovWell with confidence
- Operate and improve repeatable onboarding processes using internal tools, templates, and playbooks to reduce time-to-launch, minimize manual work, and ensure migrations and GIS ingestion become increasingly predictable as volume scales
- Provide structured feedback to Product and Engineering teams by documenting recurring issues, unmet assumptions, and tooling gaps encountered during migrations, helping inform platform and process improvements without introducing one-off solutions
- Airflow – for managing data migration pipelines
- PostgreSQL – our core database
- SQL – your core tool for validation, reconciliation, and troubleshooting
- Python – used in data workflows and automation
- Hex – your general-purpose data tool for loading, transforming, and QAing data
- RedwoodJS, GraphQL, TypeScript, AWS – the broader software engineering environment you’ll interact with
Our take
Govwell creates software for planning and zoning within local governments, simplifying processes and modernising citizen services. With the intention of improving transparency, it is helping all sizes of government serve its communities better.
What stands out about GovWell’s workflow and automation technology is the fact that its platform is customisable. Government sectors, councils and organisations operate their tech in varying ways, and so GovWell serves these varying needs by allowing flexibility of use within its platform. This is facilitated by no-code tools to improve adaptability.
Ultimately, the platform helps local governments complete tasks in a fraction of the time. It’s a breath of fresh air in the sector, which isn’t known for its innovations, and GovWell has been smart to target this niche. It will channel recent funding into expanding its team, enhancing product development and accelerating growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2024
$4.5m
SEED
Apr 2023
$1m
SEED
Total funding: $5.5m
Company benefits
- Equity / stock options
- Up to 100% premiums covered for medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Unlimited / flexible PTO
Company HQ
Rose Hill, New York, NY
Leadership
Ben Cohen
(CTO)Previously Founder of Cohen Realty & Construction. Was also a Software Engineer at UiPath, Amazon and Uber.
Troy LeCaire
(CEO)Previously Chief of Staff for the CEO of RippleMatch. Was a Campaign Intern for Senator Russ Feingold, Legislative Intern for Senator Tammy Baldwin and Legal Intern at Froelich Law Offices.
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